Culture
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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts
Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a…
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Australia’s education system must move away from its colonial world view
Nothing is more important for the future of society than our jarjums (children). Nathan Towney for IndigenousX The Guardian Their…
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Botticelli to Van Gogh: from luminous, lyrical beauty to the spoils of empire
The two events are not connected, but they do signal how times have changed. Joanna Mendelssohn The Conversation Since 1963,…
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A first for truth-telling in our nation’s history
For the first time in our history, Aboriginal people can finally tell the truth, and all of Australia will listen.…
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Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro reaches for the sun
Our narrator, Klara, is a robot, an “Artificial Friend”, or AF, designed as a subservient companion for children. Liam Pieper…
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First Sikh school hopes to create future leaders
Sikh Grammar School in Rouse Hill will welcome students of all backgrounds and denominations, but expects to attract mostly children…
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Brexit means … Euro-English?
The mantra of Brexit was “take back control” but the Brits’ departure from Brussels means they risk relinquishing their grip…
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Guide to the classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — still for the heretics, dreamers and rebels
What is it that makes Alice, in the words of literary critic, Harold Bloom, “a kind of Scripture for us”…
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Ravel’s Bolero — a sinuous and sexy composition with ‘no music in it’
Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense…
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Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby’s auction
The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of roughly a dozen of his portraits known to survive…
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To publish or not to publish?
Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of…
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The Erasmus Perfidy
With all the deception, delusions and lies that the post-2016 Brexit era has normalized it should not really have come…
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Racists tried to ban this book. How ironic that Ireland might now shun it
To Kill a Mockingbird is part of many Irish childhoods. Should it supply moral instruction? Niamh Mulvey The Irish Times…
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‘No migrants here!’: the Galway families transplanted to Meath’s Gaeltacht colony
Twenty-four families boarded two buses in Clonbur, Co Galway on March 29th, 1940, to make new homes as part of…
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How a lost manuscript revealed the first poets of Italian literature
That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during the second half of the 15th century. Maria Clotilde Camboni…
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Magic, culture and stalactites: how Aboriginal perspectives are transforming archaeological histories
In 1971, Cloggs Cave was rediscovered near the town of Buchan in East Gippsland, Victoria. Authors The Conversation By the…
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